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Arthur Herbert "Slim" Evans (April 24, 1890 – February 13, 1944) was a leader in the industrial labor union movement in Canada and the United States. He is most known for leading the On To Ottawa Trek. Evans was involved in the Industrial Workers of the World, the One Big Union, and the Worker's Unity League.
24 de ene. de 2008 · Slim Evans was a colourful socialist and trade union organizer who played the leading role in organizing the On to Ottawa Trek of 1935. He apprenticed as a carpenter and moved west in 1911 where he soon got caught up in the radical movements of the period.
Arthur H. Slim Evans was born in Toronto in 1890. He was a labour activist best known for leading the On-to-Ottawa Trek from Vancouver in 1935. The Trek was intended to go to Ottawa to confront politicians about conditions in work camps and continued unemployment, but ended in Regina.
The despair and marginalization of underpaid and underfed unemployed men in 54 so-called relief camps in the B.C. Interior during the Depression spurred the Communist organizer Arthur 'Slim' Evans to mobilize protesters, identified as strikers, in April of 1935.
24 de nov. de 2015 · Arthur Herbert "Slim" Evans was a leader in the industrial labour union movement in Canada and the United States. He was imprisoned for 18 months for his role in the...
29 de may. de 2024 · The authors scoured newspapers and court records from local and provincial archives to piece together the story of how the town's business interests and newspaper editor joined forces against striking coal miners led by Slim Evans, a notorious labour organizer who would later lead the On to Ottawa Trek.
15 de feb. de 2014 · Slim Evans and His Horse Lightning. Chapter One On the Sky High Trail. The rugged peaks of the Cajons cast deepening shadows down their eastern slopes as the July sun, a ball of fire in a cloudless sky, swung toward the horizon. Threading his way carefully through one of the passes of the Cajons was a cowboy on a sorrel horse.
